A cron job is a command, which works conveniently in the background on a pre-set period and it executes a script within a website hosting account. There are no limitations in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly the file extension should be. A few examples are sending a daily report with all the end user activity within a given website, generating a routine backup or erasing the content within a specific folder. These types of tasks as well as any other script can be executed on intervals picked by the user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or perhaps annually according to the particular intent. Making use of cron jobs to speed up numerous aspects of managing a site saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
The user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs effortlessly. In case you don't have prior knowledge about such matters, you'll find an incredibly easy-to-use interface where one can schedule the execution of your cron, selecting one or several time possibilities - minutes, hours, days, months, or particular days of the week. The sole thing that you have to fill manually is the actual task to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More capable users can also use the Advanced mode of the tool and enter by hand the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you want additional crons than your shared web hosting package enables you to have, you can upgrade this feature in increments of five with a couple of mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a new cron job is easy and you can easily add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the script that you need the cron job to run. The very last step is to select how often the cron will run and we have a very user-friendly interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can easily pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.